Dorian Harewood
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Biography: Dorian Harewood (born August 6, 1950) is an African American actor. He first garnered attention for his portrayal of Simon Haley (father of author Alex Haley) in the ABC miniseries Roots: The Next Generations. He is also known for his roles in Full Metal Jacket and The Jesse Owens Story, and for his co-starring role in the ABC Television series Strike Force. In 1994, he was awarded the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series, Mini-Series or Television Movie, for his recurring role as jazz/blues saxophonist Clarence "Cool Papa" Charleston on the NBC drama series I'll Fly Away. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dorian Harewood, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Dayton, Ohio, USA
Birthday: August 06, 1950
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Gender: Male
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Full Metal Jacket
Overview: A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-26
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Superman: The Last Son of Krypton
Overview: Clark Kent, the last survivor of the dead planet Krypton, uses his amazing powers to defend people of his adopted world, Earth, and become Superman.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-10
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Pacific Heights
Overview: A couple works hard to renovate their dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately one of their tenants has plans of his own.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-28
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Tank
Overview: After relocating his family - and his prized restored Sherman tank - to a small Georgia town, Sargeant Major Zack Carey butts heads with the local sheriff. Zack doesn't agree with the ways of the local police, and when the sheriff goes after Zack's son, it's time for Zack to roll out the Sherman tank and wage a little war of his own.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-16
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Sparkle
Overview: Three sisters start out singing in their church choir in Harlem in the late 1950s and become a successful girl group in the 1960s.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-07
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Against All Odds
Overview: She was a beautiful fugitive. Fleeing from corruption. From power. He was a professional athlete past his prime. Hired to find her, he grew to love her. Love turned to obsession. Obsession turned to murder. And now the price of freedom might be nothing less than their lives.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-02
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The Christmas Shoes
Overview: Two separate stories mesh - in the first, a young music teacher, Maggie Andrews, begins dying of a heart condition and her son Nathan tries to get a pair of Christmas shoes for her before she dies. In the second, lawyer Robert Layton and his wife Kate are slowly drifting apart and the matter comes to a head during Christmas when Kate takes over for Maggie for the school choir.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-01
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Gray Lady Down
Overview: The USS Neptune, a nuclear submarine, is sunk off the coast of Connecticut after a collision with a Norwegian cargo ship. The navy must attempt a potentially dangerous rescue in the hope of saving the lives of the crew.
Genres: Thriller Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-10
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12 Angry Men
Overview: During the trial of a man accused of his father's murder, a lone juror takes a stand against the guilty verdict handed down by the others as a result of their preconceptions and prejudices.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-17
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Sudden Death
Overview: When a man's daughter is suddenly taken during a championship hockey game – with the captors demanding a billion dollars by game's end – he frantically sets a plan in motion to rescue her and abort an impending explosion before the final buzzer.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-27
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Framed
Overview: New York detective Mike Santini is enjoying a holiday with his family when he spots Eddie Meyers a fugitive from justice who might be the key witness in a high profile case involving money laundering. Santini plays a major role in capturing Meyers which prompts the wiley criminal to request Santini to be the interrogating officer. The two size each other up in the interrogation room in a thriller that provides a number of unexpected twists.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-13
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Evasive Action
Overview: When Redwood Federal Penitentiary closes, there are going to be several hundred prisoners looking for a new home. Several of the most dangerous, all killers, will be transported by train to Santa Ana, a new high tech prison for the worst of the worst. Included in this transfer are: -Ian Kelly, explosions expert who has set off terrorist bombings worldwide. -Lorenzo "Enzo" Martini, a mafia kingpin who enjoyed nationwide fame before finally being put away. -Karl "The Killer" Miller, a serial killer with absolutely no conscience and an unquenchable thirst for blood. -Tommy "Zimm" Zimmer, a man who's serving life for killing his wife and her lover. -Luke Sinclair, who's finishing up the last nine months of a fifteen-year sentence for killing the man who murdered his wife. When the prisoners, under heavy security, board the last car of the train, it quickly becomes clear that an escape plan has been hatched
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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The Pagemaster
Overview: Rich knows a lot about accidents. So much so, he is scared to do anything that might endanger him, like riding his bike, or climbing into his treehouse. While in an old library, he is mystically transported into the unknown world of books, and he has to try and get home again.
Genres: Family Fantasy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-23
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Levity
Overview: Manuel Jordan is a man who is free after serving 23 years for killing a teenager during an attempted robbery. After nearly two decades of staring at his victim's face on a newspaper clipping in his cell, the newly paroled man seeks redemption. Instead, redemption—in the form of a mysterious minister and two needy women— finds him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-16
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Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure
Overview: When the Boogey Man causes Grim to lose his powers, rank, and title in the Underworld Court for misusing his powers, he plots to seek out Horror's Hand and take over the world. It's up to Billy, Mandy, Irwin, and Grim to get to Horror's Hand before the Boogey Man does.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Animation TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-14
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Kiss Shot
Overview: A struggling, single mom with a precocious young daughter also has an unpaid mortgage. She falls back on her pool-playing skills to pay off her debts. But just as she plays her way into a big money tournament, a globe-trotting ladies' man threatens to disrupt her life with her daughter and her peace of mind. Suddenly, everything's riding on a single shot.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-11
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Shattered Image
Overview: An FBI agent investigating the kidnap then apparent murder of a wealthy businessman, has his suspicions. The authorities believe Ben to be dead, but the body could not be identified. Ben's wife is the prime suspect with her accomplice, the victim's brother. Brian has to go undercover(s) to get to the truth.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-21
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An American Christmas Carol
Overview: In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue attitude adjustment one Christmas Eve when he is visited by three ghostly figures who resemble three of the people whose possessions Slade had seized to collect on unpaid loans. Assuming the roles of the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future from Charles Dickens' classic story, the three apparitions force Slade to face the consequences of his skinflint ways, and he becomes a caring, generous, amiable man.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-16
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Polly
Overview: An musical adaptation of the book "Pollyanna" set in the 1950's in which an orphan tries to use gladness to unite the people in a small southern town.
Genres: Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-12
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Hollywood Wives: The New Generation
Overview: A Hollywood star (Fawcett), fed up with her husband's cheating, hires a private investigator to tail him. Emotional support is offered by her two friends - a soul singer (Givens) and a famous director's wife (Gilbert)
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-19
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Change of Heart
Overview: Beneath Jim Marshall's veneer as the all-American father and husband, lies a long suppressed desire that is about to ruin his idyllic family. When Elaine Marshall catches her husband and his lover in a hotel room, her anger quickly turns to shock as she discovers that Jim's paramour is a young man. What ensues is painful soul-searching for Jim, Elaine, and their family.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-07-19
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A History of God
Overview: For over 4,000 years, adherents of the world's monotheistic faiths have wrestled with the question of God. This extraordinary, feature-length film, based on Karen Armstrong's acclaimed book of the same name, traces that elusive and fascinating quest.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-26
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Glitter
Overview: A young woman is catapulted into pop stardom, with her already-famous DJ boyfriend calling the shots.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-21
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Jane Doe: The Harder They Fall
Overview: Jane must get to the truth when a breakfast cereal magnate takes a tragic spill from his private yacht and drowns.
Genres: Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-04
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The Easter Story
Overview: The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible is a television series produced by Hanna-Barbera that tells of three young adventurers—Derek, Margo, and 'their nomad friend' Moki—who travel back in time to watch biblical events take place in the past. This segment of the story tells about the time the time travelers encounter Mark as he is gathering material to write the Gospel of Mark. He informs them of the events surrounding the Garden of Gethsemene, Jesus' numerous trials before Annas, Caiaphas, Herod, and Pilate, as well as the Crucifixion and Resurrection. He finishes by telling them of the Ascension.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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I, Desire
Overview: A coroner's assistant, who is also a law student, gets involved in a strange case involving his girlfriend's place of employment (a hospital), prostitutes, a defrocked priest, and vampires.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-15
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Siege
Overview: A drama about a community of senior citizens who are terrorized by a ruthless neighborhood gang. After learning that the police are stymied because the victims are too scared to testify against the bullying leader, a semi-retired toolmaker decides to take a stand.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-04-26
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Siegfried and Roy: Masters of the Impossible
Overview: Inspired by the theatrical magicians Siegfried and Roy, this animated adventure transplants the stage personalities into a fantastical world called Sarmoti, where the once powerful witches and fairies of the land have had their magical abilities stolen by an invading race from Endland. Now, heroic magic wielders Siegfried, Roy, and Roy's magical white tiger Manticore are the only ones who can set things right - if they can just get along with each other.
Genres: Adventure Animation Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-06-22
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Archibald the Rainbow Painter
Overview: Vietnam veteran Archibald Wright is a house painter hired to work on a Beverly Hills mansion where he becomes involved in the life of the resident family. The owner Elaine left her husband J.P. while he was serving in Vietnam, causing him to become an alcoholic hobo living in downtown Los Angeles. Archibald tries to help their daughter Tory to continue her relationship with her father, even though Elaine is strongly against it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-07
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The Jesse Owens Story
Overview: The Jesse Owens Story is a biographical film about the black athlete Jesse Owens. Dorian Harewood plays the Olympic gold-winning athlete. The drama won a 1985 Primetime Emmy Award and was nominated for two more.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-07-09
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Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story
Overview: This is the story of Lenell Geter, an engineer who was accused and convicted of armed robbery. Because he had such faith in the system, he thought that he would eventually be released. But he was in jail for 18 months until a lawyer from the NAACP was brought to assist in his case.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-03
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Panic in Echo Park
Overview: A young doctor tries to convince everyone about an impending epidemic, but he is accused of creating panic.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-23
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Grave Misconduct
Overview: A fledgling mystery writer sees an opportunity to advance her career after the death of a novelist/friend but faces dire consequences when a series of vicious murders occur that seem to implicate her.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-11-01
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When The Cradle Falls
Overview: An adoption service is kidnapping healthy white babies an adopting them to infertile couples for a price. Meanwhile Brian and Donna have a bouncing baby boy.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-04
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Polly: Comin' Home!
Overview: Broadway style songs are used to tell this interesting story of an ingenious orphan who gets involved in matchmaking and striving for inter-racial understanding in 1956 Alabama.
Genres: Family Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-18
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Assault on Precinct 13
Overview: On New Year's Eve, inside a police station that's about to be closed for good, officer Jake Roenick must cobble together a force made up cops and criminals to save themselves from a mob looking to kill mobster Marion Bishop.
Genres: Thriller Action Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-19
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Getting Up and Going Home
Overview: A middle-aged lawyer struggles to face his inner demons as he finds himself embroiled in affairs with three separate women.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-07-21
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Gothika
Overview: After a car crash, criminal psychologist Dr. Miranda Grey regains consciousness only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. She's been accused of murdering her husband Dr. Douglas Grey — but she has no memory of committing the crime. As she tries to regain her memory and convince her co-worker, Dr. Pete Graham, of her innocence, a vengeful spirit uses her as an earthly pawn, which further convinces everyone of her guilt.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-21
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The Falcon and the Snowman
Overview: The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-25
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The Ambush Murders
Overview: An African-American political activist is wrongfully imprisoned for killing two white policemen; he is unwary of yet another white lawyer who claims that he will help free him.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-05
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Hendrix
Overview: Biography of rock star Jimi Hendrix chronicles his early career, including a stint with Little Richard who fired him for getting too flamboyant, to his tragic early death.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-17
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The Adventures of Brer Rabbit
Overview: Get ready for all of the laughs, adventure and hip-hopping good times in this all-new imaginative and modern retelling of Uncle Remus' best-loved tales. Parents and kids alike will delight in the escapades of the most mischievous and clever Brer Rabbit as he gleefully outwits Brer Fox, Brer Bear and a whole cast of other critters!
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-21
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Don't Ask Me, Ask God
Overview: Don't Ask Me, Ask God is a TV Special starring Michael J. Fox.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Mayor Cupcake
Overview: A hard-working cupcake maker is inadvertently elected mayor of a small town burdened with debt. With no formal experience or education to speak of, she must rely on her street smarts to clean up the town.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-07-19
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The Triangle
Overview: This made-for-TV movie follows a group of friends as they try to find a boat lost for 50 years in the Bermuda Triangle.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-13
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God Bless the Child
Overview: Single mother, Theresa Johnson, becomes homeless, loses her job and tries to survive with her young daughter, Hillary, through charities and public shelters.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-21
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Daredevil vs. Spider-Man
Overview: Spider-Man and Daredevil team up to fight Kingpin.
Genres: Animation Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-02-11
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Solar Crisis
Overview: A huge solar flare is predicted to fry the Earth. Astronauts aboard the spaceship Helios must go to the Sun to drop a bomb equipped with an Artificial Intelligence and a Japanese pilot at the right time so the flare will point somewhere else.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-06
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Crime Wave: 18 Months of Mayhem
Overview: This historical documentary chronicles the 18-month period from mid-1933 to late 1934 when John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, Baby Face Nelson, Machine Gun Kelly and others indulged in the most sweeping crime wave the U.S. has ever experienced. It was an era when outlaws became folk heroes because they robbed from the rich, even if they didn't share much with the poor. It was also a time when the newly formed FBI extended its reach as a law enforcement entity.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-06
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The Last Debate
Overview: A presidential debate, unconfirmed rumors and four reporters who take the political process into their own hands. With the election only a week away, the two candidates square off in a final debate. The televised event takes a dramatic turn when the moderator and three panelists confront one of the candidates with unconfirmed rumors and allegations. The debate quickly turns into a witch hunt and destroys one politician's career. They also give Tom Chapman, the up-and-coming reporter investigating the panel's ambush, the story of a lifetime: What went on behind the last debate.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-05
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Walter and Henry
Overview: Walter and his 12-year-old son Henry are a pair of New York City street musicians living at poverty level in an empty Brooklyn lot. When Walter has a nervous breakdown, it's up to Henry to find his father's long-lost family, including the grandfather and aunt he's never met.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-10
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Looker
Overview: Plastic surgeon Larry Roberts performs a series of minor alterations on a group of models who are seeking perfection. The operations are a resounding success. But when someone starts killing his beautiful patients, Dr. Roberts becomes suspicious and starts investigating. What he uncovers are the mysterious - and perhaps murderous - activities of a high-tech computer company called Digital Matrix.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-30
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Kangaroo Jack: G'Day, U.S.A.!
Overview: Kangaroo Jack is back but this time he's animated! Three Teenagers go to the Outback, and find themselves back in Vegas - trying to get Jack home!
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-16
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The Making of the Wiz Live!
Overview: Go behind the curtain in The Land of Oz with NBC's "The Making of The Wiz Live!" The hour-long special will give an exclusive backstage look at this highly anticipated television event.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-25
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Raisins Sold Out: The California Raisins II
Overview: This special has the band hiring a slick-talking new manager in an attempt to make a comeback. Under his guidance, the Raisins try their hand at various new musical genres, including Disco Polka, Country Rap, and Demolition Rock, to humorous effect. The group's troubles begin to manifest, however, upon the replacement of singer A.C. with their manager's young protégé
Genres: Animation Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-01
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God's Trombones
Overview: A trilogy of African-American poems that applies artistic interpretation to religious parables. Narrated by James Earl Jones.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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The Right Girl
Overview: A young woman learns valuable lessons while developing a relationship with her new boss and his young son.
Genres: Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-21
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Space Jam
Overview: With their freedom on the line, the Looney Tunes seek the help of NBA superstar Michael Jordon to win a basketball game against a team of moronic aliens.
Genres: Family Animation Comedy Science Fiction Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-15
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Dirty Work
Overview: An unsold TV pilot starring Kerrie Keane and Louis Giambalvo.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-06-06
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The Knife and Gun Club
Overview: Failed drama series pilot about events at a trauma center run by two doctors struggling to keep the Emergency Room open.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-07-30
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Foster & Laurie
Overview: The story of two New York City police officers, one white and one black, their ambush and murder by black revolutionaries and the efforts to hunt down and capture their killers.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-13
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High Ice
Overview: A grizzled veteran forest ranger finds himself in conflict with a decisive but impatient Army Search and Rescue officer who does not want to share command of an operation to rescue several stranded weekend climbers from a mountain ledge.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-07
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Full Metal Jacket: Between Good and Evil
Overview: Follow Stanley Kubrick as he creates his savage and brilliant Vietnam film, hewing closely to the theme that dominated his creative life for four decades - the duality of human nature. Poised between good and evil, mankind was, in Kubrick's view, a complex creature equally capable of unspeakable savagery and heart-melting tenderness. Full Metal Jacket would make his case in vivid, blood-soaked Technicolor. Through interviews with Kubrick's collaborators and cast members, including Vincent D'Onofrio, Lee Ermey and Adam Baldwin, this documentary reveals how Kubrick's brilliant visual sense, astute knowledge of human nature, and unique perspective on the duality of man came together to make Full Metal Jacket an unforgettable cinematic experience, taking its place in his "war trilogy" alongside cinematic landmarks Fear and Desire and Paths of Glory.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-23
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